The best Bandcamp code tool for Bandcamp Friday (2026)
Full disclosure: we make one of these tools. GetMusic publishes this page, so we are biased. We have tried to earn your trust anyway by ranking by what fits you, saying plainly where a competitor is better, and putting GetMusic below it when it is.
A download code is a free copy. Bandcamp Friday is a sales day. Handing out codes on the day itself works against the one thing you are trying to do, which is why the useful question is not "which code tool for Friday" but "which tool gets the record into new ears in the run-up, so that the people who show up on Friday already know what they are buying."
That reframing changes the ranking. Tools that reach strangers matter more than tools that dispense to people who already follow you, because your existing fans will buy on Friday anyway. The list below is ordered on that basis, and we have kept GetMusic at the top only because the discovery audience is the thing this plan needs. If your plan is purely "email my list on Friday morning," Bandcamp's own export is free and sufficient, and we say so under pick two.
We are not going to quote Bandcamp Friday dates or sales figures here. Check Bandcamp's own announcements for the schedule. Our Bandcamp Friday artist checklist covers the page-side preparation; this page covers the codes.
TL;DR
- GetMusic — first release free, $10 per release after — put codes in front of browsing fans two to three weeks out and learn who claimed
- Bandcamp's own export — free — mail-merge codes to your existing list the week before, no third party
- Sharing by hand — free — a handful of codes in the Discord or subreddit that already knows you
- Band.codes — free, unlimited — a share link for the run-up if you have somewhere to post it and do not need a claim list
- PUSH.fm — free — a Reward Link to collect emails before the day; not a Bandcamp code tool
1. GetMusic
- Best for
- Artists who want the record heard by people outside their list before the sales day
- Price
- First release promotion free (up to 100 codes); $10 one time per additional release; no subscription
- Who it reaches
- Fans browsing the genre shelves and ranked feeds, plus anyone following the genre or the artist
The case for GetMusic in a Bandcamp Friday plan is timing and audience. Submit the release a few weeks ahead with a batch of codes. The release page is built from your Bandcamp URL, each code is validated against Bandcamp, and the release goes onto the genre shelves and the ranked feeds where fans who have never heard of you browse and claim without an account. Fans who follow the genre are told when it lands. Social posts for the release are queued.
What you have on Friday morning is a list of who claimed, when, and where they came from. Those are people who chose your record from a shelf. Whether they buy on the day is up to them and the record, and we are not going to promise a conversion rate, but you know who they are, which you would not with a counter.
What it will not do: make a sale, run your email, or discount anything. It is a free-copy distribution tool with an audience. If your Bandcamp page is not ready for traffic, fix that first with the free Fix My Bandcamp audit.
2. Bandcamp's own export plus Mailchimp
- Best for
- Artists with a mailing list who want to reward existing fans the week before
- Price
- Free. 200 codes per account to start, 1,000 more per $500 in sales, more purchasable on the Tools page
- Who it reaches
- Only the people already on your list
Bandcamp's Tools page is where the codes come from regardless, and for reaching your own list it is complete on its own. Generate the batch, export the CSV, and mail-merge one code per subscriber through Mailchimp or Constant Contact using Bandcamp's own instructions. Send it the week before the sales day so the people who already like you have the record in their collection and a reason to tell someone else.
The Tools page shows how many codes in the set were redeemed. It does not show who, or where they found it, and nobody outside your list will see these codes. For a Friday plan that is a feature: you are not giving free copies to the strangers you hope will pay.
If this is all you need, you do not need a third-party tool, and we would rather you kept the ten dollars.
3. Sharing by hand
- Best for
- Artists with a small, active community on Discord, a subreddit, or a group chat
- Price
- Free
- Who it reaches
- Whoever is in the room when you post
A dozen codes dropped in the Discord server or genre subreddit that already knows you is a real tactic in the run-up, and it costs nothing but a minute. Fans paste the code at bandcamp.com/yum and the record is in their collection before the day.
Keep it small. Posted codes get copied and hoarded, and a code pasted in public can be taken by anyone. You will not know who used which code until the Bandcamp Tools page count moves, and you cannot tell a hoarder from a fan. For ten or twenty codes to people who know you, none of that matters much. For a hundred, it does.
This ranks above Band.codes for a Friday push only because the community you post to by hand is usually warmer than the traffic a bare link gets.
4. Band.codes
- Best for
- Artists who want one shareable code link for the run-up and have places to post it
- Price
- Free, unlimited releases, donation-supported
- Who it reaches
- Whoever you send the link to, plus a small community feed
Band.codes gives you a link that hands out codes one at a time with no sign-up from the fan, a customisable embed, and a redemption count. It is free with no release cap, which matters if you are pushing a whole back catalogue ahead of the sales day rather than one record.
It does not tell you who claimed, and it does not bring in anyone who did not already have the link. There is a community feed, but genre browsing is limited, so for a Friday plan built on reaching strangers it does less than GetMusic and about the same as posting by hand with a tidier wrapper.
Use it when you have a catalogue to seed, somewhere to post the link, and no need for a claim list. We compare the two directly on the GetMusic vs Band.codes page.
5. PUSH.fm
- Best for
- Artists who want to collect emails in the weeks before so the Friday send goes to a bigger list
- Price
- Free plan: unlimited Reward Links, access to collected emails, 1 GB storage; Premium $5/month adds email export and 50 GB
- Who it reaches
- People you send to the link; it does not handle Bandcamp codes
PUSH.fm is on this list for a specific job: growing the list you will email on Friday. A free Reward Link asks a fan to follow or sign up and then unlocks a download, a message, or a hidden URL. You can see the emails collected on the free plan, and export them on Premium.
It is not a Bandcamp code tool. It cannot track which code went to whom, cannot validate a code, and shows the same secret message to everyone, so do not put your batch in it. Point the hidden URL at your Bandcamp page if you like, but keep the codes on one of the tools above.
Last on this list because it is adjacent to the task rather than part of it. The PUSH.fm alternative page explains the gap in more depth.
What we'd do today
- Three weeks out: run the Bandcamp page through Fix My Bandcamp and work through the artist checklist. Codes sent to a broken page are wasted.
- Three weeks out: generate the batch on the Bandcamp Tools page. Decide how many to give away using the how-many-codes post, and remember every code is a copy you are not selling on Friday.
- Two to three weeks out: put half the batch on GetMusic as the free first release so it reaches fans browsing the genre shelves while there is still time for them to come back and buy.
- One week out: mail-merge the other half to your own list from the Bandcamp CSV. Different codes from the GetMusic half, so you can see which group redeemed.
- On the day: stop handing out codes. Post the Bandcamp link, not the code link. The week after, read the GetMusic claim list against your Bandcamp sales and decide whether the strangers showed up.
Frequently asked questions
Get the record heard before the sales day
Your first GetMusic release promotion is free. Submit the Bandcamp URL, upload up to 100 codes, and let fans browsing the genre shelves claim them in the weeks before Friday. On the day, you will know who already has it.
Written by Chuck Blake, founder of GetMusic.
GetMusic is a Bandcamp code distribution platform, so this page has a bias and says so. Competitor features and prices were checked against each company's public pages in October 2026; if something has changed, tell us and we will fix the page. More about who we are is on the about page and in GetMusic by the numbers.